We have 3 open postdoctoral research positions (2022)!
Project 1 (1 postdoc): Biomaterials for Brain Regeneration after Stroke
The applicants must have a profound background in the following areas:
(a) Biomaterials (hydrogel design, synthesis, processing, and characterization)
(b) In vitro techniques (2D and 3D cell culture models, cytotoxicity assays, angiogenesis assays, axonogenesis, 3D imaging, immunohistochemistry, immunoimaging, and protein and gene expression analyses)
(c) In vivo models (stroke in small animal models, in vivo imaging, and tissue evaluation)
Please apply via LINK1 and forward your application package to Dr. Sheikhi by email.
Project 2 (2 postdocs): Biomaterials for Antibiotic Capture
The applicants must have a profound background in the following areas:
(a) Design, synthesis, and characterization of antibiotic antagonists
(b) In vitro mammalian and/or bacterial cell techniques (e.g., 2D and 3D cell culture models, cytotoxicity assays, gut-on-a-chip models, 3D imaging, immunohistochemistry, immunoimaging, and protein and gene expression analyses)
Please apply via LINK2 and forward your application package to Dr. Sheikhi by email.
Highlights (To Be Updated Soon!)
2022 AIChE Annual Meeting
Amir is chairing/co-chairing Hydrogel Biomaterials at the 2022 AIChE Annual Meeting in Phoenix, AZ.
Submit your abstracts before April 11th using this Link!
More details TBD!
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How Can Bio-Based Soft Materials and Biomaterials Impact Society?
Soaring population growth, imbalance supplies and demands, shortage of ready-to-use remedies, and urbanization have introduced unprecedented challenges to satisfying the world’s essential needs for water, healthcare, food, and energy. Designing new material platforms inspired by the following questions may take us one step closer to finding solutions to these needs:
1) How can natural bioproducts be micro-/nanoengineered to overcome the persistent bottlenecks of current synthetic materials?
2) How can the sophisticated structure-property relationships in nature be mimicked to address everyday life challenges?
Our Contributions
Our team endeavors are geared towards addressing some of the quintessential challenges of the 21st century in biomedicine and the environment by designing novel soft material platforms (e.g., hydrogels and colloidal systems) via micro- and nanoengineering techniques. In 2019, Dr. Amir Sheikhi founded the Bio-Soft Materials Laboratory (B-SMaL) at Penn State Chemical Engineering to develop transformative and/or translational bio-derived soft materials and biomaterials that can set the stage for the adoption of affordable, widespread technologies with immediate benefits for humans and ecosystems.